On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (Texts in German Philosophy) - Softcover

"Crouter's work is of immense importance. He has produced a consistently accurate translation of a text not previously available in English. Further, he has called scholars back to the world in which Schleiermacher himself lived and wrote, and has reconstructed that world with admirable depth and precision. His work displays uncommon erudition. Theological readers of Schleiermacher have a lot to learn from Crouter." The Journal of Religion ."..a superb new edition and translation of the original-and most forceful-version of Friedrich Schleiermacher's Uber die Religion, the volume which is sometimes taken as a new starting point for modern religious thought." Journal of Theological Studies

Schleiermacher's On Religion is a central document of early German Romanticism and had a significant impact on nineteenth-century thinking about religion. Richard Crouter has produced a new fluent translation of the original edition (1799) and has provided detailed annotation and a substantial introduction.